Thursday, June 18, 2015

Maybe its time to look for another stream provider

Had a great show last night, hope most of ya'll heard it, but when I looked in the archive saved part of www.livestream.com/hazzardayre  and looked for the show we called HazzardAyre Twisted Sister, could not find. No it wasn't about the rock group of that name it was about a wyld ryde and the music that went along with it, but hey it is what it is. The old adage of you get what you pay for may apply, here. However like most things, I ain't buying until I know that if I invest $500.00 for a year the bastard is going to work as it has been. What it means is doing last nights show all over again. However the frustration grows and I'd be lying if I said the Knytes and I are looking for another service and finding out how to migrate our programming from Livestream elsewhere. Bet your ass I'm on the phone in the AM with somebody there at Livestream, that should have been saved yet wasn't. 
Okay then, looks as though the gal from Texas flew the Wolf-Pack, guess she was intimidated by the MC or that the radio gig is owned and operated by an MC. Whatever it is that shook her guess she wasn't as much of a biker type as we would have liked. Too bad too, since I had full intentions of plugging her into the Burley station. Guess she thought we were part of another station there(KBAR) we ain't. Although had good old Kim went along with the plan it would have been, that's why we sold KTOW to that outfit in Colorado. But as I said on air last night, I myself do not get one damn cent for this radio gig, all outside talent does and gets paid damn good for it. Me I do it because of my love for you who are members of the Knytes-of-Anarchy, as well as the AyreWolvez. Any way I ran a full 5 hours, hope it got out, I think it did as we had a few callers, but damn Livestream, when I push the button to save a show, I damn well better have it saved. 
TTYLY

Wednesday, June 17, 2015

So where did Airwolf(AyreWolf) join Hazzard County?

I remember it vividly, I had just moved from Glenn's Ferry Idaho the first time, to Jerome Idaho, on the promise of a part time job ushering cattle through the chutes at Producers Livestock Company there, and when that went south, I said there's got to be something different to do here. Still part timing radio I was watching the TV series based on my squadron the VMA214 when I heard overhead two F4U Corsairs fly by. Thinking I was dreaming I went out and checked. As they made their circle for a final on landing, I switched on the scanner and heard where they were to land. So I scrubbed the breakfast I had planned and went out to the Jerome County Airport. I followed the trail of the Corsairs, and found in a medium sized hangar , a place called AirPower LTD, a vintage warbird restoration company . When I got a job there sweeping floors and doing mild duty, I asked John there one day just how much does people pay to buy these birds, he told me and it did not take much to convince me that rebuilding these old aircraft was better than just building bikes or hot rods. So as the Hazzard County Knytes was a way to bring gearheads together, thought was lets bring wingnuts together, to support, what we called BlackSheep Aviation Restoration. It wasn't until mid 2001 when because of the thoughts of a NASCAR truck racing team, I relocated to Utah. My cousin Gordon my other Cousin, Bud took the held financials of the Montgomery Foundation and took the page out of TV and reworded RodeWolf into Airwolf, to because of copyright concerns AyreWolf. The sibling group of the then Knytes-of-Anarchy, became the AyreWolvez Military Aviation Association, and focused on all forms of Navy and Marine aircraft as well as helicopters. Because of that history the idea of doing old fashioned pin up girl calendars as they were in combat history as was done with aircraft nose art etc came about. Yes we revived that, and as they say its history. So that's how Military flight got together with Hazzard County that created in part, HazzardAyre Radio.
TTYLY

In The Beginning back in the day

Back in the day in the beginning, we never intended that HazzardAyre or its immediate cousin Southern Steele Radio was never meant to become what they became and are. The reason the entire radio station idea came about was few if anyone in mainstream radio wanted to publicize what was going on in our youth based 4-H trucker vocational club. The Movements of the TeenAge Truckers Association were as wyld as advertising the corner drug dealer, or that was what many in the business saw it as. Our organization was saying teens and tweens yes you too can drive 18 wheels. Yes there is life hauling freight and going toewing. So since nobody else did it, or would do it, I took a brief amount of knowledge, some of Dads dollars and did an experiment, could a truckers based radio gig done in the Mountain West, become as wyld and roudy as that on networks coming from Texas, Nashville etc. So in 1973 at the front of the Arab oil embargo and the restriction of the 55 or double nickle speed limit, from a purposely built part of where I resided along with mom & dad, KDSL or KAY-DIESEL at FM 89.1 went on the air. Along with our feature radio show, Long Haul Radio. By the late 1970's we were no longer teens and was wondering where to take things as an organization, when all things Hazzard County and the Dukes-of-Hazzard came into the picture. So a none official fan club of the Dukes and a rural gearheads club was formed. Still no radio people or TV stations wanted to touch us. So We said lets take what we did with Long Haul Radio, and KDSL and do it Hazzard style, total fight the system radio. So radio station KTOW , was launched. With the core of being the only radio for those who tow. Course few could not pronounce tow, as it is supposed to be, so we put a big Toe in the mix and TOEW came to light. KTOW ran until 2011 when we sold the call letters to a station in Colorado to fund a new creation. KTOW was and is still our baby , no matter who says otherwise. 
In 1997 we launched an episodic(Episode) program called Southern Steele to compete with then American Chopper. That was done so our shop that we thought should have been said was us to begin with. With Hazzard County Choppers, we said lets do both a TV show/ with a radio show called SouthernSteele and that got stolen by the Discovery channel. Not to be defeated, the minds of us southern kountry guys got together and launched HCC. By 2009 the Hazzard County Knytes had now became the Knytes-of-Anarchy by title and verse. Since the TV series came from our book we took liberties, not to be disputed. Over time SOA's people decided to partner rather than fight, so we were there. Mid 2009 the crew of both AyreWolfFM and Dixie-Diesel(HCC) radio were tired. But I wasn't. In the middle of the night I got a bolt from the sky of what to create. A meeting the next day came the idea, munch HCC together with AyreWolfFM and we got HazzardAyre. HazzardAyre has taken off like a Jack rabbit on steroids. We as a gearhead club never thought that what we were doing would hit, like it has. And continues to evolve. HazzardAyre is the champion, often criticized due to our flamboyant attitudes and antics, but we also know we have a greater power to serve our master Jesus Christ, since it was after all his bolt out of Heaven that gave me the idea. So in a dark motel room in 2012 HazzardAyre began broadcasting, over the air. In mid 2013 I was introduced to webcasting although I had played with it before through other venues I had never taken it seriously. Then there were people saying if we could only hear you back east, or down south etc. So a MC friend of mine in Lake Tahoe said sign up with this outfit called LiveStream. So I did, but then we didn't have the bandwidth to do that justice. By early 2014 HazzardAyre on www.livestream.com/hazzardayre took off like the gun shot of superman. All of a sudden the supporters of our old syndication station airings and all said, lets get behind you. So we re-launched in Ogden Utah in June 2014. Just over a year ago, we moved into a office space that we turned into a studio. We thought we had a hog by the butt there in Woods Cross Utah, when two idiotic roommates never paid the bill of co-rent to me. and the club was dissappointed that we couldn't get sweet female bodies even in an office to do shows. So I killed my apartment in Ogden and tried to habitate in the studio office. This lasted until the last part of November. When I was even then looking for a domicile, a message from a MC member here in Evanston said, you do know KEVA went tits up don't you? No I didn't so I made the trek to Evanston, got caught up in a snow storm, no internet, no phone, couldn't contact the people that rented us the office space there in Woods Cross Utah, they were about to throw out the gear, so with the help of the Church (thank God) HazzardAyre was rescued. App was made on the old license here. But here now we are looking at just using the Evanston location as a sub station, and putting the new flagship station right where HazzardAyre started. Where there are albeit limited but at least the human resources we need as well as the telecom backbone that HazzardAyre Radio and soon HazzardAyre TV Network can live. The history though and finalizing here, HazzardAyre has become nearly an entity of its own. We never thought that just a near pirate station to get the word out of the clubs activities and events would have become and is what it is now. All I can say is Stay Tuned the giant is about to get bigger .
TTYLY

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Moving forward but looking west to do that












Too hot to live in with cold shoulders is an underwear statement. It's been nearly a year that I left my beloved LexiBelle
  While I have been attempting to erect a monument to Interstate Over the road radio she just sits. The rewards of what I do are so scarce and infrequent that I at times wonder why I do this? Then I see or hear from a listener, that says he was saved some serious accident by avoiding a patch of highway during a bad storm, that I remember that its you who groove on the big road. However the grease on the fifth wheel is not as easy as it should be. So with that the Knytes have said, lets put the gig in Wyoming to bed. Move the gig and the rigs where bucks can be easier to make with my trucks, and be more effortlessly streaming. So it is with heavy heart and the kick in the ass that we will moving operations from Evanston in September to Idaho, mainly Burley. This means even our new gal from Texas should be looking more at Idaho, not Wyoming. Deets tonight on the show. Be tuned in at www.livestream.com/hazzardayre starting at 11:00PM .
Saw a bit of a happening here today, and it might have been something else, but got kicked in the jaw , by one I tried to help, named Niki, and the jealous or maybe over protective attitude , but Janet's guy, was not letting her into my domicile here to fix the screen on the back porch, and they forgot the switch to the light in the head. Even Janet was a bit put offish today. Seems although they haven't said so, but I think she and Lester think its best I depart. That Delbert guy said he was in, but has been gun shy, so I am not going to kicked in the head twice. So starting to look at housing in and around Burley. Stay tuned.


Godzilla is being created under many noses even Pandora and Iheart.

Many that have not been in the know around us, have purtty much ignored the roaring of a phenom being created right here in Wyoming. To many HazzardAyre Radio was at best a itch under many broadcasters skin, one they did not know how or where to scratch, while others were just plain scared to scratch. The main break came in late 2013 when after many attempts something great and miraculous happened. A riding friend from another MC who worked as a contract TV engineer, saw an ad we had on CraigsList for a engineer. He introduced us to a streaming service called Livestream and we have been there ever since. 
Last October , there was noise I got in Utah about old KEVA up here in Evanston going pretty much dark. So some scambling and investigating found the license for old KEVA, was in a holding pattern. The FCC does not allow for license holding patterns. So some howling on our part , not only is KEVA's old certificate of occupancy ours, but a jump in output juice, of 50kw . Meaning AM 1240 is coming back with a vengence, but not as KEVA, KNAK will occupy the slot as our call sign, rejuvinating an old set of call letters from Utah. And the only challenge to the mighty KCPX. As such HazzardAyre, RodeWolfFM, AyreWolfFM, Highway Hooker Radio and all the channels we run on Livestream will now be belching out of the tailpipe of KNAK, as well as our FM licensed to another community less than 15 miles away, which will smoke all neighboring FM's at 250K. Which means the giant has awakened. From the Oregon/Idaho Border, to western Nebraska, From Wisdom Montana, to Saint George Utah and from eastern California to Sturgis, HazzardAyre will be heard, online, over the air, and from the sky. Yes talks are on for XM Satellite for at least two of our more popular channels. Had a seatcover from Texas sniffing around the Wolf's Den, she sounds good from what a short aircheck she sent. Thing is, even though she rides, does she have of the stuff for our outlaw, fight the system, high octane southern fried radio? We see if she even shows up. BTW I'll be really convinced when I go to the mailbox, and find some smelly nylons in a envelope, from this seatcover from Texas. Ya'll know why, and you know the thing of two words toe and tow. If a gal is rebel enough to send us her stockings, still soiled, she's the kind we know that can get you to boil, out there on the big road. Unlike Pandora, and IHeart, HazzardAyre aims to be a one of, old skool LIVE 24/7/365 online, ota radio station, and now that we'll be able to go ota(Over The Air) It truly will be the miracle. Just we now need to find the honeys to be on air. 
More lightning came so were not able to stream overnight, but we'll be back in your ears online on www.livestream.com/hazzardayre Tuesday afternoon starting at 15:00 Mountain Standard Time.
Until then know the radio for those that Toew and haul is becoming the Godzilla of online radio.
TTYLY

Saturday, June 13, 2015

Every time I eat I gotta go poop




















Seems as though, every time I eat I gotta go poop. Must be my insides are colliding with some sugar octane issues. Which after the day I had on Friday, would be an understatement. First on my way to the shop, ran out of gas. Not close to a go fluid outlet, had to push the Witchy Woman to the shop. Exchanged the Witchy Woman for General Deere, and headed to the Uinta View Ward to clean the building which after sweating like a race horse, got dehydrated and anyone that knows that when your sugar octane, with type 2 diabetes, is a pattern for serious wrung out feelings. But I did my job. Seems as though a congregation that prides itself to be clean, sure leaves a mess. Guess some didn't have that much bonding in doing home chores when younger , like myself. So after that scooted over to Wal-Mart, got some groceries, came home and chowed down. Which sent me to the inside latrine . 
Which is why I was not on air overnight. Body said no , even though mind said git-r-done.  Overnight runs here are getting somewhat problematic, however not impossible. It's nice to have a Wal-Mart that stays open 24/7. As if you need a wire connection for a quick repair it's there. Granted formal repairs are needed but this all started Wednesday night. The lightning storm we experienced here, sent the system nuts. Yes it pooped and pooped really bad. So in serious need, braved the storm, and went to Wal-Mart got what I needed noticing that my temp gauge on Witchy Woman was climbing, but not bad. But climbed it did. So its been seesaw between equipment repair, station equipment repair, and getting stuff on air through partly automated means , since we can't seem to get another person, here doing the gig, has to be done that way. Add to that managing 7 channels on Livestream, is a tough gig. 
Any mile, gotta go again, see ya'll on HazzardAyre Radio, starting at 23:00 Saturday night, and on Highway Hooker Radio, the only show on radio for us who tow. TTYLY




Friday, June 12, 2015

This Town deserves saving




















A few weeks even months ago, if someone was to have told me I'd be writing about doing something to help this arrowgant , stubborn, stuck up village they all call Evanston Wyoming, I'd be telling them, that they might have drank a bit too much sacrificial wine. Thing is though, we are here. I did not come here to build out a humungus toew service or Harley shop, I came here to this town to build the ultimate online and over the air radio station dedicated to preservation of all things southern and all things Hazzard County. Reasons are too many to go into here, but suffice to say, with the tribulations I can see some hope. Now this does not mean I'm sinking all the clubs eggs in one basket, but just because of greed the club did not redux Lotty's into the Reaper, much of that is due to the greed of the people that own the building and booze laws here, does not mean project numero uno that being the radio can't be done. Even though we're busting balls on the Wells Fargo building, there's two offices at the shop. That could easily be converted to studio space. So the radio station can be done there. Plus when we go TV , as well we have space there that can be used for sound and video stages. But why. 
Utah has just given the green light along with tax breaks for three TV series' and that means much work. All of that, like the Winter Olympics will spill over to Wyoming, mainly Evanston. Post production, pre-production, voice over production, the concept is if we're here built here, guess whose going to get the work? Guess whose going to get the financial benefit? 
Evanston is not such a bad place. Sure when it comes to real estate its a bit pricey, but outside of that, the none church and even the church people here are good, friendly people. Does that mean we're slyding into being this communities radio station? No. We will continue to be the radio voice of all things southern/Hazzard-County, and of course that black ribbon community called truckers, bikers and I-80. The idea as it was in the beginning , build the station here. HCC/Highway Hooker Toewing, Montpelier Idaho, me in Burley with Cooter's Kustmz & Toewing.
TTYLY